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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lopping
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The answer is found in the brilliant reddish bronze of its new foliage, visible throughout the year but especially following pruning, when rapid and significant regrowth results in lots of fiery foliage.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
31 Jan. 2026 -
Prevent damage by choosing resilient varieties, pruning properly, watering well, and mulching before winter.—
Alexandra Jones,
The Spruce,
31 Jan. 2026
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Georgia continues to find some rhythm offensively, trimming the lead to 14 at the third media timeout.—
Tony Catalina,
Austin American Statesman,
31 Jan. 2026
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City officials are now considering trimming or removing trees near the fields to improve visibility and reduce glare.—
Nina Burns,
CBS News,
31 Jan. 2026
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As my fellow wholesale shoppers know, the real culprit is that side-clipping cup.—
Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
1 Feb. 2026
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Doing a quick scan of weekly sales, clipping coupons ahead of time and knowing what's in season can also shape smarter choices.—
Daryl Austin,
USA Today,
31 Jan. 2026
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Asking the closest thing the country has to a national theater to concentrate on its earnings endangers any art form with a small audience, while also curtailing ways that such an audience might grow.—
Lily Meyer,
The Atlantic,
4 Feb. 2026
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Mobilizing Proxies Over the past two years, Israel has battered Iran’s regional network of proxies, significantly curtailing the regime’s ability to project power beyond its borders.—
Mostafa Salem,
CNN Money,
29 Jan. 2026
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Gold and silver prices rose after paring bigger, early gains.—
Stan Choe,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Feb. 2026
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Wall Street’s fear gauge, the VIX, was up 10%, paring gains after soaring as much as 25%.—
John Towfighi,
CNN Money,
3 Feb. 2026
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The results indicate that techniques such as cropping images so models focus their attention on relevant regions and applying reinforcement learning for reasoning can minimize hallucinations in VLMs.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
29 Jan. 2026
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The last family photo features less of the family, with Kardashian cropping it so that most of her face and all of Barker’s is out of view.—
Bailey Richards,
PEOPLE,
30 Nov. 2025
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In January 2026, customer data from that incident appeared publicly on a popular hacking forum.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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Released Parties are also not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by site users, tampering, hacking, or by any equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Sweepstakes.—
AJC.com,
AJC.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, the film previously believed to be this year’s best-picture front-runner, is nipping at Sinners’ heels with 13 nominations of its own.—
Hillary Busis,
Vanity Fair,
22 Jan. 2026
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Be right back, just nipping to the hospital to ask about these hives.—
Jack Lang,
New York Times,
22 Jan. 2026
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“Lopping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lopping. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.
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